Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
ALDOUS HUXLEYChronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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